[BenLurkin]

[Uncle Miltie]

“There’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch’”.

[ClearCase_guy]

Here's an idea -- say "Here's your food; where's your money? You don't have the money? Then I can't give you this food."

This actually works in the real world. They should try it.

[artificial intelligence]

The cruel and heartless government starving poor children.

[Sacajaweau]

Let the parents buy a linch ticket first...duh...

[WayneS]

We all gonna get free lnches, 'cuz we got OBAMA now!

[SamAdams76]

Maybe I'm just an old grouch, but back when I went to school, my mother would pack me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to take to school each morning and I'd eat it at my desk when teacher said it was time for lunch. If the kid next to me had a bologna and cheese sandwich, maybe I'd swap with him if I was tired of peanut butter and jelly.

If we wanted a "hot lunch", we'd put our sandwiches on the windowsill if it was a sunny day.

[Jvette]

I worked for five years as a lunchroom lady in my kids’ elementary school.

The abuse of the free and reduced lunch program is rampant.

The kids whose parents were honest and didn’t try to game the system did sometimes have debt or came without money.

We were allowed to let them have lunch up to 5 times without payment. After that we were not allowed to give them a lunch.

When they came through the line, we would have to remind them that they owed money and then take the food from them and send them on their way.

This was embarrassing for these kids and they became almost afraid to come through the line in case they owed and couldn’t get food.

The school had no problem with this humiliation of these poor kids.

But, one could be reprimanded or even fired if one was caught revealing which kids had free or reduced lunches!
We must not humiliate the little darlings by telling their peers that they were too poor to buy their own food.

[nina0113]

How much can it cost to make a big pot of gruel for the kids whose parents won’t pay?

[mquinn]

Here they get free PB&J for about a week or so if they can’t pay the lunch fees. After that, cut off.

[ltc8k6]

Pay? For Food? I have a right to eat and the government should provide!

I hear they have some leftover brats at the White House...

[MaxMax]

I wonder how those Cheeeldren will handle credit when they grow older....

[proudpapa]

Let’s do the math:

2200 students

1900 get FREE lunch

And the remaining 300 get hounded for nickles, dimes and quarters.

[pnh102]

How many familes which “can’t afford school lunch” happen to be able to afford things like Cable TV, broadband Internet and computers, smartphones, cigarettes, alcohol or illegal drugs.

[calex59]

Here’s a thought, don’t serve the lunches until they have been paid for and stop the “free” lunches for the free loaders. When I was in school the poor kids(of which I was one) brought their own lunch, it was usually better than what the school had anyway.

[certrtwngnut]

“we’re in the business of feeding kids”.
I thought they were in the once noble profession of teaching kids?
I guess not.

[joe fonebone]

so, the department of education is also responsible for:...

establishment and maintenance of restauraunt facilities...

clean up of garbage and trash from premises...

security of building and said occupants...

limosine and other transportation to and from facilty for all that attend...

and I thought schools were a place for learning....

[ArmstedFragg]

What part of “if they don’t pay, stop feeding the little #&@*s” isn’t clear?

[conejo99]

I have a different problem. The school officials have ordered my kids to buy lunch and then billed me for it. Once the school was open for a half day only, so we just gave them a snack (juice and crackers) instead of a sandwich. School rules kick in and I start getting automated calls every day for each child telling me I owe money (but not telling me how much). Once we ran out of bread so we gave one of the kids pop tarts, crackers and juice. Once again the school ordered that a lunch be bought. In no case was the lunch actually eaten. What we gave was tastier and what they wanted anyway.